Go to your e-mail and accept all the invitations you have gotten from your classmates. You need to be able to see their blogs to make comments. I've noticed a lot of you haven't done this yet.
Go to your dashboard and approve any comments you have. Social networking and blogging doesn't work if you don't comment on other peoples work and enter into conversations with your reader's through your comment steam. If you have any comments, go to the blog of the person who commented on your post and comment on one of their posts today.
Now for todays photo assignment. Post the new photo you took of the jaguar photo and tell me why it is so much better than your first one.
Next class we will be using both photos to create a new image using both jaguar photos. Here is an example I created with some photos I took last week at the cemetery. Both photos are the same size and one is of the angel and one is of the trees. The angel photo is the bottom layer and the trees are on top. I then changes the blending mode to multiply and erased the parts of the trees that were on top of the angel. You can have as many layers as you want but we are going to start with two.
If you want to go ahead and get started here's what you need to do:
- In photoshop go to File - New - and create a new document 8x10 @ 300 DPI.
- Open both of your jaguar photos.
- Copy and paste each one separately into the new 8x10 you have created.
- In your layers panel select one of the photos and go to edit transform and make it fill your new page making sure to lock your proportions. When you have done this then drag that layer below your other layer.
- Click on the top layer. Use edit - transform and make this photo a size that looks good on top of your first photo. When you are done you can use the eraser tool to selectively delete the background from the top layer.
- Play with the blending modes to see what different effects you can achieve.
- When you are finished save it as a .psd file in case you want to go back and edit it later.
- Finally flatten your image and save it as a .jpg
Next class we will post it so...get creative!